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Morning Edition · Tuesday, September 8, 2026Published at 2:18 AM EDT · New York
Unitree Shows Humanoid Robots Fighting Under a World Model With No Human Pilot
UnifoLM-X2-1.0 replaces the teleoperator in the company's boxing demonstration, running real-time prediction and planning instead of scripted motion or remote control.
Unitree Robotics presented UnifoLM-X2-1.0 on 7 September and called it the first fully autonomous humanoid robot combat driven by a real-time world model. In the company's earlier boxing demonstrations, a human pilot controlled each machine…
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